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 Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 12:59 pm Post subject: Labrador By-Election |
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| Quote: | One of Canada's most remote ridings will be ground zero Monday for a very big day in federal politics.
The event is a by-election in the riding of Labrador in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
The outcome will not change the balance of power in the House of Commons but it is the first electoral test for the new Liberal leader, Justin Trudeau, while Thomas Mulcair gets his first chance to prove that his party and not Trudeau's is the real alternative to Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservatives. |
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/s.....35325.html |
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| Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 1:02 pm Post subject: |
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The Liberals would have won this riding Trudeau or otherwise, however I have no doubt that it will be pegged as a "huge victory" for him.
Newfoundland and Labrador was the only Province in Canada where the Liberals won the popular vote, and the CPC victory in Labrador was the slightest to begin with.
Yvonne Jones is a former leader of the Provincial Liberals and about as Rockstar as it gets.
I fully expect a double digit win for Jones, |
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Bugs
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However, it is a Liberal victory, and it will certainly help Justin Sinclair-Trudeau.
He has done another clever thing ... he has asked the public to send him questions that they want asked in the House. It's a useful device, designed to make him the spokesman of those who are disgruntled.
On the other hand, there are signs that the Conservatives are getting slack, and that a genuine scandal could be brewing. |
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RCO
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| Posted: Wed May 15, 2013 8:22 am Post subject: |
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the liberals won the by-election with about 48 % of the vote which is close to the % they got in past years , they seemed to normally get around 5000 votes in the riding . the ndp vote maybe a surprise held at 18% .
the cpc % of vote was lower than 2011 but penashue only got about 300 actually votes less than when he won so the cpc vote didn't actually drop by much .
i don't think the results were a huge surprise , it was likely one of the only seats the liberals could of easily recaptured without much of a fight , even without the election financing allegations against penashue it would of been a tough riding to have ever held on to .
also noticed in the news there will be another by-election coming up as Denis Coderre is leaving his montreal riding to run for mayor . not a riding the cpc has much of a chance in but be an interesting liberal/ndp/bloc race |
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| Posted: Wed May 15, 2013 8:30 am Post subject: |
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| RCO wrote: |
also noticed in the news there will be another by-election coming up as Denis Coderre is leaving his montreal riding to run for mayor . not a riding the cpc has much of a chance in but be an interesting liberal/ndp/bloc race |
Bourassa is largely one of the safest Liberal ridings in Quebec.
They should retain it regardless of who runs.
Where this becomes interesting is as a barometer of NDP support on the island.
The BQ won this riding in 1993 and finished a respectable second in every election till 2011 where the NDP finished second. |
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